#289 - Qing 24: Kangxi's Five Stelae of Victory

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

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In the wake of the Kangxi Emperor's flawless victory + fatality of Galdan Khan, he erects his own definitive version of "The Way Things Happened" - five stone stelae monuments as an everlasting tribute to his greatness, and his side of the story literally written in stone. But even one so mighty as the Lord of Great Qing is not above the twist of fate's knife. For he has been receiving highly disturbing reports about his son and heir, Crown Prince Yinreng... Time Period Covered: 1697-1707 CE Major Historical Figures: Great Qing: The Kangxi Emperor (Aisin-Gioro Xuande) [r. 1654-1722] Crown Prince Yunreng [1674-1725] Prince Yinxu Minister Songgotu [1636-1703] Minister Maci [1652-1739] Jesuits/Catholic Church: Pope Clement XI [r. 1700-1721] Bishop Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon [1668-1710] Fr. Joachim Bouvet [1656-1730] Jean-Francois Gerbillon, Puritan Missionary Tómas Pereira, Puritan Missionary Kingdom of France: King Louis XIV, "The Sun King" [r. 1643-1715] Major Works Cited: Perdue, Denis. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Shelly, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." Spence, Jonathan D. Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-hsi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.5	Episode 289,
0:50.2	Kangshi's Five Steely of Victory.
0:58.7	I met a traveler from an ancient land who said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the deserts.
1:05.9	Near them on the sand half sunk a shattered visage lies
1:10.4	whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command,
1:15.5	tell that its sculpture well those passions read which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things,
1:22.2	the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.
1:27.1	And on the pedestal, these words appear,
1:31.4	My name is Ozymandius, king of kings.
1:37.0	Look on my works, ye mighty and despair.
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